Having wet dreams about water cooling my 290

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Hey all, so I recently got a 290 and I think its pretty good for warming up my feet on the top of my case. Temps fluctuate between 60-95 when gaming on dayz and shogun, however I can keep it at 80~ if I manually set the fan to 40 odd before I start the game and keep it like that.

I was watching a vid on youtube and the kraken g10 and a corsair cpu cooler looks like a plausible option. I have a corsair 200r case and I was wondering if I could put the radiator fan on the side case door in this screenshot, I already have a be quiet silent wings fans there, so I'll have to move it to the top, would that work? thx

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You might want to look in to why you're card is topping out at that high of a temp before going straight for a ~$100 water cooling option. I run the gigabyte 290 windforce at no more than 75c on auto fan settings(goes up to 50% fan speed). Keep in mind that the card was made to run around a 95c top end temperature as well and if you can get it to 80 with a fan tweak i don't see the problem. If you were going to drop that much more money on cooling system, why not return it for something that runs cooler like the evga 780 w/acx cooler? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130918
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Have you set custom fan profiles? Try that out in MSI Afterburner if you haven't already.

The G10 is no good in my opinion. It doesn't cover your whole GPU so some components aren't even cooled. I'd look into adding side fans or other ways to add cool air around your GPU.
 
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You might want to look in to why you're card is topping out at that high of a temp before going straight for a ~$100 water cooling option. I run the gigabyte 290 windforce at no more than 75c on auto fan settings(goes up to 50% fan speed). Keep in mind that the card was made to run around a 95c top end temperature as well and if you can get it to 80 with a fan tweak i don't see the problem. If you were going to drop that much more money on cooling system, why not return it for something that runs cooler like the evga 780 w/acx cooler? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130918
 
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I'm looking to watercool my crossfire 290's - they run pretty hot.

Some of the early r9 290's ran very hot, a bios update was released and later cards started using the revised bios.

I reflashed my xfx 290 to a newer bios i managed to find and it knocked off 10c. Also i know certain ram types have had issues.

What version bios is your card? - gpu-z screenshot will be handy. I've always messed round with bios's on all my radeon's, in the past primarily to unlock the powertune limit.
 
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I have the stock xfx too :p

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I think its running at 95c because its a 290 running on a stock fan
 
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The G10 works great if you just get some small VRM heatsinks.


Ive used the G10 with a Corsair H55 on two GPUs and it works great. Get some small VRM heatsinks and some decent thermal pads.

Fitting to my GTX 680

Copper heatsinks on the Vram chips and VRMs:

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As you can see, now the Fan on the G10 blows directly on to the VRM heatsinks :) (the Vram chips dont even get hot really)
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Yea essentially this is what it will look like, just wondering would a h90 be better? Also where did you get the ram sinks? I can't find them on ebay, do they come with the g10? I thought they just used the single fan to cool the chips.

Also what temps do you get while gaming?
 
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Its more important to use the heatsinks for the VRMs than the RAM. The vram chips dont really get anywhere near as hot as the VRMs.

These:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Copper-DDR-DDR3-Ram-Memory-Cooler-HeatSink-For-Ram-VGA-UK-seller-0224-/221381852704?pt=UK_Computing_Memory_Chipset_Cooling&hash=item338b62fe20

and some decent thermal tape like this
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100mm-x-20mm-1-5mm-THERMAL-HEATSINK-TRANSFER-PAD-DOUBLE-SIDED-SELF-ADHESIVE-TAPE-/200749580181?pt=UK_Computing_Thermal_Compounds_Supplies&hash=item2ebd9b7f95

On my 680 in summer (overclocked to 1241mhz boost), it idles around 24'c, around 60'c running unigine Valley on extreme HD - pretty good using only a little H55 in push/pull. H75 or h90 would be decent for the 290 which runs hotter.
 
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Yep exact same card with part number that i have. Your bios version is also the earlier version which was giving me some times up to 95c temps on certain games, the newer bios dropped this to 85c.

I've got 2 bios'es here you can flash, depending on serial number of the card - as earlier serials had a different hardware revision. You must get the right version or you will need another card to boot up with to flash it again.

Whats the last 6 digits of the S/N on the back of the card? - i'll sort you out the right bios and flash util.

 
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